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On October 14, 1947, Yeager, then a 24-year-old captain, pushed an orange, bullet-shaped Bell X-1 rocket plane past 660 mph to break the sound barrier, at the time a daunting aviation milestone.

Romanian prime minister Ludovic Orban resigned on Monday after his Liberal party lost Sunday's parliamentary election, but his centrist camp appeared in pole position to form a coalition government against the victorious opposition leftists.

The lingering legacy of World War Two reached the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday as the justices weighed two cases involving claims by Jews in Germany and Hungary and their descendants whose property was taken amid persecution that culminated in the Holocau...

The Trump administration is slapping sanctions on 14 Chinese officials over the crackdown on prodemocracy advocates in Hong Kong.

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Turkey will not bow to threats in its dispute with Greece and Cyprus over maritime claims in the eastern Mediterranean, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday as European Union foreign ministers met in Brussels to discuss the issue.

Moncef Slaoui, Operation Warp Speed chief adviser, said he has not yet met with Biden, who has criticized the Trump administration’s vaccine distribution plan.

Kuwait's prime minister submitted his government's resignation on Sunday in a routine procedure after parliamentary elections that took place on Saturday, state news agency KUNA said.

The Georgia U.S. Senate runoffs don't take place until Jan. 5. But there are already some clear winners.

President Donald Trump's decision to pull U.S. troops out of Somalia in the waning days of his presidency triggered dismay on Saturday from some Somalis, who appealed to the incoming U.S. president to reverse the decision.

The Democraticcontrolled House on Friday approved a bill to decriminalize and tax marijuana at the federal level. The bill would reverse what supporters called a failed policy of criminalization of pot use and take steps to address racial disparities in e...

France is preparing the rollout of a first round of COVID19 vaccines that it hopes will start reaching the most at risk citizens early next year pending regulatory approvals of the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

The top U.N. human rights official Michelle Bachelet called on Belarus on Friday to release all people unlawfully arrested in postelection protests and investigate some 2,000 complaints of torture or illtreatment in custody.

The WTA is planning to start the 2021 season in the first week of January outside Australia before the players travel to Melbourne for quarantine ahead of the Grand Slam, women's tour chief Steve Simon told Reuters.

A partial lockdown will begin this weekend in the Gaza Strip after COVID19 infections spiked in the densely populated territory, Gaza's Interior Ministry declared on Thursday.

Moves by United States to limit visitor visas for Chinese Communist Party members and their families and a ban on Xinjiang cotton imports are "worrisome signs" bilateral ties are being shifted onto a dangerous path, Chinese state media said on Friday.